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Shoe company Allbirds pivots to AI compute in sign of a totally normal and healthy economy (www.engadget.com)

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[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Allbirds isn't the only company pivoting to compute in an effort to feed the hungry goblin called AI. Boom Supersonic is a startup trying to build the world's fastest airliner but has begun selling gas turbines to AI companies to power data centers. Many Bitcoin mining centers have pivoted to AI and it's worth remembering that NVIDIA's GPUs were once used primarily for PC gaming.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Aircraft company manufacturing gas turbines seems perfectly sensible.

[–] skyline2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It does, except their execs are on LinkedIn sucking Trump's cock on the regular

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 4 days ago

linkedin became very pro-right wing after thier purchase, and when start blocking profiles if they cant datamine you. it used to be able to track people you know(through thier careers) if they are trying to bs thier CV/RESUMES.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

That's also a very sensible business decision, to be fair.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Yeah the rest of the examples besides the shoe company don’t seem like a big stretch

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's a business model that makes some sense.

[–] tauisgod@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Fads gonna fad. At least pogs didn't wreck the environment